From: "Williams, BD (NBCUniversal)"
Date: January 15, 2012 15:56:25 EST
To:
ND:
I hope you're well. Happy New Year. A big congratulations to the new freelance weekend guy, Taylor Bernam. He's done some good posts right out of the box. I do wish the main page featured more TV coverage (Brooklyn hippster [sic] Lana Del Rey had one of the worst outings in SNL history last night booked on the strength of her TWO SONG web EP, the least-experienced musical guest in the show's history, for starters). In my humble opinion as a loyal customer (you know I love you but the Blog View button will be the eventual cause of my death) and while I know you're in the midst of an editor change, weekends have been allowed to go awfully fallow and it was a fallow holiday period for those of us who check your shit 10 times a day by iphone. I know you've been watching NBC Nightly News religiously each evening and I'll no doubt be getting a withering, detailed critique from you straight away.
BW

The hurried damage control from NBC:

From: M., Erika (NBCUniversal)
To: 'Kevin@gawker.com'
Sent: Mon Jan 16 12:26:59 2012
Subject: Brian Williams
Kevin can you please have the post of Brian Williams' email to Nick Denton taken down immediately? That was sent in confidence as friends and absolutely never intended to be public. A speedy removal would go a long way in maintaining the trust and respect we have for your site.

Does anyone actually have "trust and respect" for Gawker? At least they are slightly more credible than Lana, who doesn't command nearly as many pageviews, and also sucks.